August 11, 1969
Las Vegas, NV US
Ice Palace
Setlist:
Setlists during this tour include: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown
Notes:
The show is reportedly organized by local promoter Michael Tell (who later married Patty Duke).
Las Vegas Weekly - "top 25" concerts held in Vegas
3. Led Zeppelin, Las Vegas Ice Palace, 1969
Though the Internet purports Zeppelin's only Vegas-related date to have been an April 19, 1970, Convention Center cancellation we've spoken to a dozen individuals who vividly recall getting the Led out at this once-hopping all-ages venue in the Commercial Center off Sahara Ave. It went down atop the wood-covered ice of a hockey arena—most likely, we deduce, on either August 11 or 12, between shows in San Diego and Phoenix—with fans of the band's blues-driven early music fanning across the plywood floor and up the bleachers along the sides. "They were good, except when Jimmy Page pulled out that violin bow and drove me nuts with it for the next 25 minutes," recalls Las Vegas resident Tom Burt. "It was before they were really big—they only had their first album out—but if you knew what was goin' on, you knew who they were."
From Michael Chain in the group PINKINY CANANDY: "We were second on the bill. A local band opened the show (at the Ice Palace in Las Vegas), then Pinkiny Canandy (Michael Chain) and then Zeppelin. (w/ thanks to Steve A. Jones)
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zeppelin concert las vegas ice palace august 11th 1969
The local band that opened the show for for Pinkiny was Wolfticket. We had also opened for Jim Morrison and the Doors at the Ice palace also that year. We actually opened for Alice Cooper at the las vegas convention center that same evening as we opened for the Doors. Quite a night. I still remember how cold the Ice Palace was and the wood floors placed over the ice for the concerts. Tim Munshower Minneapolis ps Wolfticket is having a reunion in Vegas at the House of Blues on February 21st at a Yes show. We are not performing just about old times